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Sexuality, Spirituality and the Body: the Art and Science of Somatic Psychotherapy Somatic Psychotherapy Today | Winter 2016 | Volume 6 Number 1 | page 2 Sexuality, Spirituality and the Body: The Art and Science of Somatic Psychotherapy This forward-looking conference explores the exciting future of somatic psychology and bodymind therapies. Healing the whole person by working with the energies and emotions of our embodiment leads us to questions about the spirituality of each human-being and about the ways in which our sexual desires gird so many of our energy blocks and emotional conflicts. The 2016 USABP Conference will investigate the discovery of our embodied spirituality and the connections of bodymind therapy with other path-breaking fields such as transpersonal psychology, ecopsychology, and the traditions of spiritual healing. Also to be investigated are the challenges of working with sexuality in the context of bodymind practice — how is our sexual life, and the sexual lives of those whom we help in the clinical setting, to be integrated with our emotional, spiritual and somatic being-in-the-world. Read All About it! Starting on page 34 Somatic Psychotherapy Today | Winter 2016 | Volume 6 Number 1 | page 3 Somatic Psychotherapy Today Our Feature Stories 36 Welcome to the USABP Congress Sexuality, Spirituality and the Body: The Art and Science of Somatic Psychology 38 On the Significance of “Bodymind” Visioning for the Profession and for the Planet By Barnaby B. Barratt 42 Sexuality, Spirituality, and the Body. An Interview with Joan Borysenko By Nancy Eichhorn 48 Gender Based Changes to Manage Stress: How Behavior and Nutrition Play a Part in our Relationships. An Interview with John Gray By Nancy Eichhorn 54 In Honor of Eugene T. Gendlin: Somatic Pioneer By Ann Weiser Cornell 58 Dancing with Gravity By Darrell Sanchez 62 Into the Void: A Journey of Longing, Love and Eros By Lisa Loustaunau 66 Being with the Traumatized Person By Marcel Duclos 68 Sunflower Mind: Exploring our Embodied Relational Process By Serge Prengel Read us on your smartphone: install the app using this link: http://bit.ly/IssuuOnAndroid Somatic Psychotherapy Today | Winter 2016 | Volume 6 Number 1 | page 4 Somatic Psychotherapy Today Our Feature Stories 72 Addressing Sexuality in Bioenergetic Therapy By Laurie Ure 78 Birth as an Act of Sex By Karen Ehrlich 82 Spirituality, Sexuality, The Body and Aging with Marjorie L. Rand, John Walker Davis, Laura Sullivan 86 Opening Your Heart to Love By Olaf Trapp 94 Welcome to the 15th European Congress of Body Psychotherapy The Embodied Self in a Dis-embodied Society 97 The Embodied Self in Philosophy and Life By Christine Caldwell 98 The Psychopathology of Disembodiment and Reconnection Through Enactment A Conversation with Maxine Sheets Johnstone By Nancy Eichhorn 102 The Mind . The Embodied Mind . The Enactive Mind . The Train Mind By Genovino Ferri 108 The Common Ground in Body Psychotherapy A Conversation with Michael C. Heller By Nancy Eichhorn Volunteer Magazine Staff Nancy Eichhorn Editor, Layout Design Diana Houghton Whiting Cover Design Somatic Psychotherapy Today | Winter 2016 | Volume 6 Number 1 | page 5 Our Usual Fare 10 From the USABP President 20 Join the Conversation Beth Haessig By Nancy Eichhorn 12 Across the Pond By Jill van der Aa and Lidy Evertsen 112 Body Wise By Kamalamani 14 From APPPAH’s President Sandra Bardsley 130 Resources By Jacqueline A. Carleton assisted by Dawn Bhat and the 16 From the IBPJ Managing Editor USABP Interns By Jill van der Aa Reviews and Reflections 116 Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication in Psychotherapy 22 The Handbook of Body Psychotherapy and Reviewed by Sarah Sperber Somatic Psychology Reviewed by Nancy Eichhorn 118 Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication in 28 The Handbook of Body Psychotherapy and Psychotherapy Somatic Psychology Reflections by Halko Weiss Reviewed by Nancy Eichhorn 31 The Handbook of Body Psychotherapy and 125 Verbal and Non-Verbal Somatic Psychology Communication in Reflections by Courtenay Young Psychotherapy 90 Eros/Power: Love in the Spirit of Inquiry Reflections by Gill Westland Reviewed by Nancy Eichhorn 128 Self-Compassion in Psychotherapy Reviewed by Kimberly Wang Read our blog: www.SomaticPsychotherapyToday.com Read us digitally: www.issuu.com/SomaticPsychotherapyToday Somatic Psychotherapy Today | Winter 2016 | Volume 6 Number 1 | page 6 Somatic Psychotherapy Today | Winter 2016 | Volume 6 Number 1 | page 7 From Our Editor It’s conference share their creative processes and in turn time. Time to explore ways to possibly integrate new ideas engage and into our own clinical practice. There are interact, network symposiums, poster presentations, pull-out and collaborate, sessions and vendors along with pre- expand and conference workshops for those wanting to evolve. We hope focus deeper into specific content areas. And you will join SPT of course there’s the traditional gala event Magazine in with dinner and dancing. Providence, I personally look forward to connecting in Rhode Island, this person with the keynote speakers who July for the USABP Conference: Sexuality, generously shared their time with me, to Spirituality and the Body—the Art and meeting our contributors who took time to Science of Somatic Psychotherapy, and in write about their upcoming workshops, and Athens, Greece for the EABP Congress: The to personally thank our advertisers. There Embodied Self in a Dis-embodied Society. are so many options to choose from! I know We look forward to hearing keynote my time will be filled. addresses by colleagues who have dedicated Please keep an eye out for us and take the their professional lives to support and time to say, “Hi” in person. We appreciate promote somatic psychology, who have our readers and hope to encourage more of reached out to the world and let people our colleagues to join SPT Magazine’s know the power and presence of body professional community through psychotherapy and the modalities within subscription, article submission and guest that help people heal and grow. Association blogging. members are offering workshops so we can Warmly, Nancy Eichhorn, PhD [email protected] From Our Awesome Cover Designer Hello All, What has been coming up for me a lot lately is priorities. With the winter holidays over and all that it entails I am having to get organized again. So having been a little derailed for a while its is nice to see the up coming conference. This is a great way to focus efforts toward continuing education and get the train back on the track. I would also like to thank all of the artist that have contributed to the covers of SPT over the years. There are covers that I was able to acknowledge and others that I could not find the artist names. I hope the new year finds everyone well and I look forward to what the next few months bring. Sincerely, Diana Houghton Whiting, MA LPCC Somatic Psychotherapy Today | Winter 2016 | Volume 6 Number 1 | page 8 Somatic Psychotherapy Today | Winter 2016 | Volume 6 Number 1 | page 9 From the USABP President Dear Somatic Psychotherapy Today Readers, Did you ever notice that the way we go about filling up the space in our lives is often the very thing that makes us feel the emptiest? I wonder what would happen if you felt the emptiness of this moment, right now, with full breath. Notice how magically it becomes full, all by itself, in your body . without doing or buying a single thing. USABP is garnering a grand space to fill this July, with people like you. Come, taste, enjoy the fullness of this experience, of your breath, of our conference, of life itself. Being with whatever is alive right now in your body, in the company of fellow colleagues is what we're all about. As President of the United States Association for Body Psychotherapy, I am working so you can engage more clients. I am dedicating my time so that our profession is respected by our colleagues. I am reaching out via workshops and webinars so more talk-oriented professionals will become curious about what we do and join our training programs. I am here, present with all of you because I believe we make a positive impact on our world. Over the past year, our membership drive has resulted in increased individual members and Institutional Members and Training Resource members on board. Our SALE continues to attract more individuals (still at 1/2 price)! Our Research Committee Chair Denise Saint Arnault headed our most exciting project this year. With USABP backing, Denise is developing a series of research projects on the processes and efficacy of somatic psychotherapy, beginning with the establishment of a collaborative partnership with the California Institute for Integrative Studies (CIIS). The research question we will answer in these studies is: What is the impact of the unique contributions of Somatic Psychology on client health outcomes? The study will measure physical and psychological symptomology, body awareness, and key physical, social and psychological health indicators. Descriptions of our processes, our activities and achievements to date, and discussion of similar projects will be presented at the USABP conference in July, 2016. I look forward to meeting you personally at our July conference in Providence Rhode Island. We look forward to making a big splash on the East coast as we celebrate our 20th year of existence near the original founding location by Boston. See you soon! Beth L. Haessig, PsyD Licensed Psychologist Certified Core Energetic Practitioner [email protected] Somatic Psychotherapy Today | Winter 2016 | Volume 6 Number 1 | page 10 Somatic Psychotherapy Today | Winter 2016 | Volume 6 Number 1 | page 11 Across the Pond European Association for Body Psychotherapy Jill van der Aa General Secretary/Vice President Lidy Evertsen EABP President Our 15th European congress, ‘The Embodied Self in a dis- Embodied Society’, is being organized in collaboration with PESOPS, the representative of the EABP in Greece.
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